We’re celebrating what God has done at Life Center in the last 40 years!

February 9-10, 2019

Introduction:

Today, we’re celebrating what God has done at Life Center in the last 40 years!  So our time together is going to be a little different: rather than spending the first half hour singing and praying, and the last 45 minutes in a Bible teaching, we’re going to tell the Life Center story and mix in some worship from each era.

We’re going to condense 40 years into an hour—so we’re going to leave out far more than we include, including events and people.  There are hundreds of people who have had a significant impact on the life of our church in the last 40 years. If I were to name them all, it’s all we would do.  So please forgive me if you don’t hear your name or see your picture.

As you can see on your handout, we’re going to tell the story in three parts—three eras defined where we were meeting at the time.  But before we get to the first era, I have to acknowledge that our church existed long before 1978. Spokane Foursquare Church was chartered on January 15, 1931 (pic of charter).   When Laina and I arrived in 1978, the church had already been here for 47 years, and had been through seasons of growth and decline.  So we didn’t come to nothing—we came to an existing church of about 40 people with a small buildi